Austria’s Bwin Interactive Entertainment has won a battle over Germany when a court in Karlsruhe ruled in favor of overturning a law the German Government had made in the beginning of the new year. Bwin Interactive Entertainment will be able to keep accepting bets from the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Bwin Interactive Entertainment has around two million customers in Germany with several hundred thousand in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Germany’s third largest state had a regional ban that limited certain types of gambling online, however it is technically not enforceable. Now that the ruling was in favor of Bwin Interactive Entertainment’s beliefs this could mean a return to gambling on the internet in Germany. This decision follows the European Gaming and Betting Association’s decision to file an official complaint with the European Commission against the German accord outlawing betting on the internet throughout the nation’s sixteen states. The European Union principles are being attacked by the German Government, in order to ensure that the principles are respected the European Gaming and Betting Association is determined to make proud the European betting groups it represents.

Of course we should not think Germany is going to take this ruling lying down. An appeal will undoubtedly be made from the German government to the administrative court in Mannheim, Germany. Germany is afraid of the uncontrollable nature of gambling on the internet.

The opposition against Germany is strong. Sigrid Ligne, Secretary General for the Association makes the point of focusing on land based offline gambling that is being promoted in Germany. Calling live gambling okay but online gambling wrong is the thinking of a hypocrite.
 

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